Nova, a male fox now 6 months old is very calm around humans. "He actually isn't that all afraid of people,” says wildlife rehabilitator Laura Stastny.

Nova was rescued from a yard in Bellevue. "He was a little bit bigger than my hand, probably about two pounds when we got him."

He was found with scratches on both corneas. "Although we were pretty certain the eye damage was going to be permanent to some degree, we decided to try a course of treatment."

Nova’s main job was helping Pinball, a female fox found around the same time. Keeping them caged together kept them less socialized to humans and more towards each other, which increases their chance of survival in the wild.

In early August, Pinball’s recovery was completed and she was released, but Nova’s vision seemed to be worsening. "We don't keep animals on a permanent basis, we release everything or we euthanize them," says Stastny.

But Nova was at the VCA Animal Medical Center on Wednesday for a second chance at life. "He has a little bit of increased pressure in his left eye, so that's what we're going to do to his eye is bring the pressure down."

After the 10-minute surgery and some shots, Nova will recover for about four days before being taken to Colorado. He will make the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keensburg his new home.

"We're incredibly relieved, we've become very attached to him, and we're happy and we're pretty confident that he's going to have a comfortable life where he can be an ambassador for other animals," says Stastny.

Nova will be put in a companion cage to the main enclosure there, so for several weeks he will be alone, but he’ll have contact with the other foxes through a fence.

It seems that although Nova can only see darkness, his future appears to be bright.